New to TT - TT Tow Weight Question
Hey everyone, I am new to the forum and fairly new to TTs. I bought my truck prior to the thought of purchasing a TT - my wife went camping last weekend with some friends and is fired up about purchas...
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bradyk wrote:
Now add the the wife,kids, bikes, toys, firewood and whatever else goes in the truck and subtract that. Add another 100 lbs for the hitch too. Then fill the water in the trailer, 2 full propane tanks, 2 batteries, food, clothes and all the other junk we bring with us. Then reweigh your 400lb tongue weight and see where you are at. I bet the 400 tongue is really not close to tgat in real life even with my Equalizer hitch.Mine is similar size and weight and we started with an F150 loaded to the max and a little. Switched to 3/4 ton and would necer go back. Rides better, more stable and peace of mind that we have lots of lbs to spare. Can you do it yes. Safe and recommended probably not. At least from my experience with a similar size and weight.
I think some of the assumptions of what everyone absorbs their payload is what makes these discussions good - we all try to guess at what we will put in the TV - what if we only put people. We live in Louisiana, I won't be hauling any firewood, for outdoor fires I will get it wherever we end up camping, bikes would go on the back of the trailer, unless we were primitive camping tanks on the trailer during tow would be empty. If I don't put anything in the truck except the family and dog I will have almost 900lbs of payload left (thats using 600lbs of payload capacity and besides me I have a skinny family so even that is over estimating). The Andersen WD hitch weighs 60lbs so I am downto about 840lbs of payload.
Like everyone says until you hit the scales you never know, but until you know where you are camping, for how long, primitive/non primitive, supplies etc. how can you throw everything you think you need in your truck and trailer and hit the scales. All I can go by is what the stickers say and what other members have experience with, balancing the 2 can be hard.
It would be nice if there was a spreadsheet that showed actual weights with different TV payload, and TT payload capacities and how it effected the hitch weight etc...
